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This is a request for a presentation on Mind mapping applications.
If you use or have evaluated different mind mapping applications and wouldn't mind presenting, please step forward :)
I'd like to hear what your experience has been, how you use it and why you've chosen one app over the alternatives.
Chris Irwin has promised to give a (possibly short) presentation on finding and migrating configuration files from one $HOME to another.
Eric Gerlach has offered to present a talk on building kernels the Debian Way, and/or a talk on building Debian packages. However, he is afraid of commitment and has not selected a date yet.
Brad Bierman has potentially offered to present the Snort intrusion detection system.
In this presentation I will show how you can remotely access other computers to work as if you were in front of the keyboard or let other people view your desktop or control your computer, even behind firewalls. All using Free software.
The presentation will be at the end user level, showing the practical and hands-on side of it. The presentation is not about explaining the technology, just how to use it.
Bob Jonkman requested a newbie-friendly guide to scripting in the Bash shell.
In this presentation, Khalid will go through various tools and techniques used to analyze performance issues with systems running Linux.
We will cover a bit of everything:
- Status tools
- Debugging/profiling, with an emphasis on performance rather than code debugging.
- Monitoring tools
- Statistics tools
We will examine live systems running the above tools where possible, in order to show real life data ...
There are an increasing number of mobile computing platforms available: Google Android, Linux Maemo, Linux on the Palm Pre, OpenMoko...
KWLUG members who have played with these phones could share their experiences and show off neat tricks so that the rest of us drool and feel envious.
Thinking of ditching that dull corporate job?
Sick of writing proprietary software and not sharing your work?
Heard about this open source thing and wanted to jump in but still hesitant?
Not to worry, Open Source is here to the rescue!
This session will motivate participants to dive into Open Source as a fun way of making a living.
AGENDA
GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
... GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses.
I'll show you how to create accounts, how to import transactions from your bank, Do transfers and generate reports.
GnuCash has a special place for me as it was my epiphany to the value of Open source: